Min Zhou
Senior Staff Engineer at LinkedIn
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolMin Zhou is a seasoned Senior Staff Engineer based in Sunnyvale with over 14 years of hands-on experience building large-scale distributed systems and data infrastructure. She has led foundational efforts at Databricks as the first engineer and leader of the TiDB team, architected scalable control planes and UltraWarm storage features at AWS, and built end-to-end data pipelines for Tango’s 300M users. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and technical lead, Min has deep operational experience running one of the world’s largest Hadoop clusters at Taobao and shipping production Spark, Kafka, Cassandra, and Hadoop-based systems. Her background blends low-level systems engineering (C++ early in her career) with modern cloud-native stream processing and storage architectures. Not obvious from titles alone: she has repeatedly built platforms from scratch across companies and datacenters, turning prototype ideas into production infrastructure. She holds an M.S. in Computer Software and Theory and consistently focuses on making distributed systems reliable, scalable, and maintainable.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Software and Theory, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Software and Theory at Jinan UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science and Technology at Nanchang University
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
118reputation
20kreached
2answers
4questions
Github Skills (162)
complement10
apache-spark10
postgresql10
python10
rocksdb10
hadoop10
tikv10
telegram10
perf10
distributed-transactions10
serverless10
cloud-native10
operator10
foundationdb10
transactional10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
coderplay/LightningRPC
Apr 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:27 commits, 9 pushes in 1 year 3 months
coderplay/perfj
May 2015 - Oct 2015
PerfJ is a wrapper of linux perf for java programs.
Contributions:1 release, 54 commits, 2 PRs in 5 months
perfjava-programslinuxbytecodeprograms
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.